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Serge Quadruppani

Autor(a) de Saigne sur mer

37+ Works 124 Membros 3 Críticas

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Obras por Serge Quadruppani

Saigne sur mer (1996) 15 exemplares
In fondo agli occhi del gatto (2006) 11 exemplares
Y (1991) 8 exemplares
L' assassina di Belleville (2001) 6 exemplares
Loups solitaires (2017) 5 exemplares
La politique de la peur (2011) 4 exemplares
La politica della paura (2013) 3 exemplares
Comment je me suis noyé (1995) 3 exemplares
Je pense donc je nuis (1999) 3 exemplares
Corps défendant (2001) 3 exemplares
Madame Courage (Grands Formats) (2012) 3 exemplares
La forcenée (1994) 2 exemplares
Tonton tué (2006) 2 exemplares
Maldonnes (2021) 2 exemplares
Saturno (2013) 2 exemplares
Bel paese (2013) 2 exemplares
Tir a vue (1994) 2 exemplares
Le furiose (2009) 2 exemplares
Saturne (2010) 2 exemplares
Loups solitaires (2017) 1 exemplar
Blade Runner 1 exemplar
Rue de la Cloche (1992) 1 exemplar
J'ai jeté mon portable (2007) 1 exemplar
Colchiques dans les prés (2009) 1 exemplar
Vénénome (2005) 1 exemplar
Sur l'île de Lucifer (2018) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Skeleton Crew (1985) — Tradutor, algumas edições8,395 exemplares
The Shape of Water (1994) — Tradutor, algumas edições2,625 exemplares
The Snack Thief (2003) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,628 exemplares
The Voice of the Violin (1997) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,623 exemplares
Excursion to Tindari (2000) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,481 exemplares
O Cheiro da noite (2001) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,367 exemplares
The Paper Moon (2005) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,176 exemplares
The Wings of the Sphinx (2006) — Tradutor, algumas edições975 exemplares
The Potter's Field (2008) — Tradutor, algumas edições917 exemplares
The Track of Sand (2007) — Tradutor, algumas edições893 exemplares
Gli arancini di Montalbano (1999) — Tradutor, algumas edições618 exemplares
The Making of the Modern Family (1975) — Tradutor, algumas edições83 exemplares
Hitler, tyrannen og tyranniet, Bind 1/3 Partilederen 1889-1933 (1991) — Tradutor, algumas edições7 exemplares
Hitler Et Staline, Tome 2: Vies Paralleles (French Edition) (1991) — Tradutor, algumas edições6 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Membros

Críticas

On vacation somewhere in the mountainous part of Italy, police Commissario Simona Tavianello and her husband Marco, himself a capo commissario (police chief) encounter the dead body of an engineer for a major—and highly secretive—agricultural research firm. Local activists suspect the victim’s company of contributing to the disappearance of the area’s honeybees, and he’s been shot on the premises of a deserted beekeeper’s shop. While this case ordinarily wouldn’t involve the vacationing couple, it soon emerges that the murder weapon was Simona’s own gun.
A smarmy television reporter . . . an eccentric local scientist . . . a shady government spy . . . a ruthless industrialist—the full deck of eccentric personalities is here, against the backdrop of a real-life crisis in agriculture and some interesting speculation on the promise (or is it the threat?) of nanotechnology.
Possibly it’s an artifact of the translation of this mystery, but a time or two I was unclear which of the book’s many characters was under discussion. More puzzling was the author’s habit of having characters openly blurt out a confession, subverting the mystery. Poor Simona (who ordinarily works for the anti-mafia squad) is involved in the case because of her gun, and she’s also in the way, as the local police try to sort things out.
Her husband is retired and she herself is described as white-haired and a little thick around the middle, yet she still has an eye for the handsome beekeeper that arouses her husband’s jealousy, mostly good-natured. They are old antagonists, locked in a lifelong battle that pleases them both. Their relationship is quite fun for the reader, too.
Quadruppani has a distinctive, somewhat breathless writing style, moving his characters rapidly from one scene to another, and a facility with description of the Italian countryside and lifestyle. Fans of previous books in this series may have developed a fondness for Simona and Marco. As a first-time reader, I found the pace a little frantic—too reminiscent of a bee flitting from flower to flower, gaining information pollen grain by grain, but still needing some serious processing to produce honey.
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Assinalado
Vicki_Weisfeld | Nov 3, 2015 |
 
Assinalado
raix | Jan 22, 2012 |
Die Bankiersfamilie Boutonnier hat an Heilig Abend zum Festessen eingeladen, da steht um 18 Uhr der Weihnachtsmann vor der Tür. Doch die Freude der Kinder währt nur kurz, denn der Überraschungsgast ist alles andere als ein Überbringer guter Botschaften und schöner Geschenke: Mit Pistole und Sprengstoff bewaffnet, nimmt der Gangster die Familie und ihre Gäste als Geiseln und verlangt unter Gewaltandrohung den Code für die Öffnung des Banksafes. Doch vorher überreicht er jedem Anwesenden ein passendes Geschenk, das, wie sich zeigt, die geheimen Laster und üblen Vergehen jedes Einzelnen bloßstellt. Der Unbekannte hat über Monate hinweg jeden der Gäste beobachtet und abgehört und ist fest entschlossen, die vermeintlich bessere Gesellschaft mit brutalen Mitteln zu demaskieren. Allerdings ist der Weihnachtsmann nicht der Einzige, der ein doppeltes Spiel treibt.
Ein gesellschaftskritischer wie hintersinniger Krimi voller bösartiger Überraschungen, der sich als idyllenferner Anti-Weihnachtsroman entpuppt. Einfach nachdenkenswert und klasse!! Ein spannender Sonntagnachmittag ist garantiert!
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Assinalado
truller10 | Dec 21, 2011 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
37
Also by
14
Membros
124
Popularidade
#161,165
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
3
ISBN
50
Línguas
4

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